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18 Sep 2015 The Way Things Work

Posted at 13:35h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

When I was a kid, we had a book in our house (well, we had LOTS of books, but this was one of them) entitled The Way Things Work, which was written and illustrated by David Macaulay. It's a magical book full of all kinds of crazy, hand-drawn pictures illustrating, well, the way things work. From augers to grand pianos to zoom lenses and just about everything in between.

14 Aug 2015 What a 10-day Traffic Jam Can Teach Us About Money

Posted at 12:25h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

You probably saw something in the past few weeks about the alarming volatility of the Chinese stock market, and more recently its currency devaluation. If you didn't, the short version is that things are a bit messy there these days. That being said, I'm not going...

26 Jun 2015 Is It Better to Rent or Buy Your Home?

Posted at 11:01h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

Chances are, if you live in the Triangle area, you or someone you know has recently bought or sold or is shopping for a home and experienced how fast the market is moving here. People are moving to the area in droves, interest rates are...

24 Apr 2015 Take Me Out To The Ballgame

Posted at 12:40h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

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Turner Field. Atlanta, GA. -- https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidberkowitz/[/caption] I talked to my friend Brian on the phone the other day, and among other things we discussed his desire to go see the Atlanta Braves play at Turner Field this summer. Brian is a diehard Braves fan, but has never been able to get down to Atlanta to see them play, and would love to do so before they tear that stadium down and build one way out in Cobb County (suburb of Atlanta).